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'Over the years, our ability to find these small asteroids increases,
this is why we count more and more, as time goes.

'Hopefully, the surveys surfing the skies to find them will have
better and better funding, as well as space missions to hunt for them
from space and projects to mitigate any potential collision risk.

The asteroid identified as 2013 EC was discovered by Arizona's Mount Lemmon Observatory on Saturday.

Similar to the Russian meteor that hit two weeks ago, it passed Earth at an approximate distance of the moon's orbit Monday, Mar. 4, at 2:35 a.m. ET (7:35 a.m. UTC).

Landing: Local residents said they witnessed burning objects in the sky of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions. The asteroid landed in a frozen lake

Terrifying: A meteorite shower hit Russia injuring at least 100 people, including school children

It is thought to be between 10-17 meters wide.

The Russian meteor was 17 meter wide with a mass of 10,000 tons before entering Earth's atmosphere.

More than a thousand people were injured as the sonic wave caused by the explosion collapsed roofs and shook buildings in the Ural region in Russia.

More than a hundred thousand asteroids have been discovered so far.

An asteroid Apophis, nicknamed as
‘the doomsday asteroid’, was observed by the European ESA’s Herschel
space observatory and a study claimed that there is 2.7 percent chance
of it colliding with Earth.

But further studies dismissed this and claim that the asteroid will definitely not strike Earth in 2036.

Loudest ever infrasonic shockwave: This image
from a Russian driver's dashboard camera shows the explosion caused as a
meteorite burned up in the atmosphere over central Russia a fortnight
ago